Inconsistency in Roman Epic Hardback: Studies in Catullus, Lucretius, Vergil, Ovid and Lucan (Roman Literature and its Contexts) - Hardcover

O'Hara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 052164139X ISBN 13: 9780521641395

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

How should we react as readers and as critics when two passages in a literary work contradict one another? Classicists once assumed that all inconsistencies in ancient texts needed to be amended, explained away, or lamented. This book explores the possibility of interpreting inconsistencies in Roman epic.

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Críticas

"The argument is lucid and profitable. Any student of the Classics could learn a lot by following the author's concise examination of many of the major interpretative problems in Roman epic poetry."
James J. O'Hara, New England Classical Journal

"O'Hara's study is aimed at any reader, expert or not, interested in using literary theory to shed new light on contemporary issues in Roman epic." BMCR

"The book is written in a clear language which abstains from an artificially complicated vocabulary and convoluted sentences. O'Hara convincingly suggests many reasons why Roman poets chose discrepancies."
Journal of the Classical Association of Canada, Sabine Grebe, University of Guelph

Biografía del autor

James J. O'Hara is George L. Paddison Professor of Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is the author of Death and the Optimistic Prophecy in Vergil's Aeneid (1990) and True Names: Vergil and the Alexandrian Tradition of Etymological Wordplay (1996), as well as numerous articles and reviews on Latin literature.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 052164139X
• ISBN 13: 9780521641395
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 178